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Cotemar Mexico is an oil and gas company operating in Mexico. The company offers services in maintenance, construction, development of offshore oil fields and petroleum companies. It also provides accommodation and catering to workers working on offshore oil rigs. The company offers construction and transportation of workers using its vessels.

Cotemar Mexico logistics portion operates under Apoyo Logistico Marino. The company owns specialized modernized boats and brand new fleet. There are many barges and tugboats for specialized needs. It posses large boats for transporting materials and emergencies such as fires and oil spills.

The catering and accommodation portion is named Cocinas Del Mar. its workers provide services like cleaning bedrooms and common areas, washing clothing and providing food. It has basketball courts, cinemas, gymnasiums, and lounges. It is providing 14,000 meals in a day and serves 4,000 employees.

The services are in line with the code of the company that acknowledges that the wellbeing of workers is crtitical because of the long hours of work. Cotemar Mexico has a hotel for workers in Ciu-dada del Carmen. Workers eat at this place after coming on shore. The cooks give high quality and follow strict hygiene and safety standards when preparing meals.

Under its subsidiary company – SIPSA, Cotemar Mexico provides oil and construction platform and maintenance services. The employees are professionally trained in welding using simulation programs. Besides offshore oil platforms, the company provides onshore installations.

Cotemar Mexico takes environmental safety very seriously. The company uses modern technology on its operations. All broken electronics are safely disposed with Recicla Electronicos Mexico. The company has contracted AeroScout for the Wi-Fi RFID chips project. The aim is to enable the company be able to track all its workers in the event that they go missing during drilling. The technology also ensures only authorized personnel access the facility.

Cotemar Mexico firm was unveiled in 1979 to provide multi-service energy solutions. Ever since, it has grown to be the leading and most reliable gas and oil service provider in Mexico. It services Petroleos Mexicanos oil and gas operations. Cotemar Mexico has diversified its services by using innovative technologies and using sophisticated vessels and hiring competent employees.

The main vision is to offer efficient services using groundbreaking technologies and committed professionals in execution of these services. It also uses eco-friendly equipment and techniques during the production of petroleum. The aim is to increase involvement through capitalization of its vessels to increase production.

Shaygan Kheradpir is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Coriant. The Coriant Company appointed Mr. Kheradpir to be its CEO in May 2015. He also chairs the board of the firm.
Mr. Kheradpir has an experience of more than 30 years in management. He has worked in different industries including technology, telecom, and finance. Kheradpir started his career at the GTE Corporation. He was later appointed to serve as the Verizon’s EVP and also as the Chief Information Officer. This appointment came hand in hand with another election to join the leadership management crew. The team then dealt with innovation, system modernization, efficiency and pioneering product initiatives. One of the products he and the team handled was the FiOS. FiOS had a capital investment of about $20 billion.

Kheradpir left the firm for Barclays. He worked for the Barclays Company as the Chief Operations and Technology Officer. Shaygan also served on the bank’s management team. During the transformation to the 21st century, Kheradpir led the creation of Barclays’ Transform Program. The program included the bank’s branches in 50 countries across the globe and about 150,000 employees. After the success of this program, he was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of Juniper Networks. At Juniper Networks he created an Integrated Operating Plan for the firm and also led the strategic development markets of the Cloud Builder and High IQ Networking.

Shaygan Kheradpir has also served as the Operating Partner of Marlin Equity Partners. He handled the planning of technology and telecom investments.

DR. Kheradpir holds a bachelor’s, masters and doctorate, degrees all from the Cornell University. He holds many patents including media, payments, and telecom. DR. Kheradpir used to be on the Engineering Council of Cornell University and one of the board members of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology.

He took over the seat of CEO of the Coriant from Pat Dipietro. Pat is now the Vice Chairperson of Coriant. Kheradpir is also the Operating Partner of Marlin Equity Partners; he has worked in the same position for the Marlin before. According to a credible source, Shaygan had been working with the senior executive team of the company since the beginning of 2015.

The Coriant is reported to be securing some contracts from key clients; including some international carrier companies like the NBN of Australia, China Unicom, BSNL, TSIC (TeliaSonera International Carrier) and many others.

About Coriant
Coriant is a firm that majors in developing dynamic and innovative networking solutions for a dynamic and cloud enabled-commercial world.

Shaygan Kheradpir’s appointment as Chief Executive Officer of Coriant telecommunications left stockholders and competitors in 100 countries strategizing as Coriant’s optical revenues declined 11 percent in 2014 while competitors reported large gains. Created from Nokia Optical, Tellabs, and Sycamore Networks through rapid mergers and acquisitions in 2013, Coriant optical transport supplies network services to most of the Tier 1 Communications Service Providers internationally. MetroEdge and Tellabs were purchased by Marlin Equity Partners, a division of Coriant, for $891 million.

Kheradpir’s shrewd judgement derived from 28 years of experience in the fields of telecommunications, technology, and financial services are “driving Coriant to [its] next level of growth.” His formal education, bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from Cornell University prepared him for his appointment as CEO. He began his career at GTE Corporation, and was subsequently appointed Verizon’s EVP and Chief Information Officer. As a member of the executive leadership team driving systems’ modernization, efficiency, and innovation at Verizon, he pioneered product initiatives, including FiOS, one of the largest infrastructure programs in the U.S. with an underlying capital investment of $20 billion.

While Kheradpir’s role as CEO of Coriant is to focus on his large customers providing 100G to multi-terabit optical telecommunications service to metropolitan areas, data centers, and international infrastructures, his invaluable “strategic insight” gained as Chief Operations and Technology Officer of Barclays bank guided his judgement as an operating partner of Marlin Equity Partners, focused on Coriant’s telecommunication and technology investments. He directed Barclays’ TRANSFORM program which revitalized the bank with 150 thousand employees in 50 countries for the 21st century.

Coriant is striving to expand its product line of Packet Transport Network (PTN) solutions for more flexible networks with innovative technology for unique emerging markets and applications. The Coriant® 7610 Service Edge Platform is designed to securely transport data to meet the needs of metropolitan communication networks with two different versions of encryption. Coriant offers powerful state-of-the-art encryption of data center communications with reduced maintenance and installation costs. Coriant offers 4 Gbps to 16 Gbps configurations for efficient reliable access to networks.

Under the direction of Shaygan Kheradpir, the company won key customers with international carriers: Australia’s NBN, BSNL, China Unicom, and Telia Sonera International Carrier (TSIC) are Coriant’s new clients. Coriant is leading the industry in channel performance providing resilient unrivaled optical link control. Coriant leads its competitors in mixed and matched technologies for the 21st century.

In the Seattle offices of Amazon, the desks are made from cheap doors. While the company can afford better working surfaces for the crew, Jeff Bezos insists on door desks because it is part of the company’s founding story. In the early days, Mr. Bezos and his small team became tired of packing books on the floor of a garage and used cheap doors to create a practical solution.

It is an interesting and quirky story of a startup solving a problem, but the real story of Amazon is the unimaginable impact the company has had on society. Impact is the goal of startups.

Founder of Swiss Startup Factory, Mike Baur, recognized the true goals and needs of startups and developed a business dedicated to remove hurdles from their path. His twenty-year career working in Swiss private banking, with UBS and Credit Suisse, provided a very close look at the world of startups.

Politics never seizes to amaze the world. Politicians themselves like Donald Trump have pulled a surprise campaign amazing the whole world. This may be the reason why Charles Koch does not seem to see eye to eye with the Republican presidential aspirant, Trump. Koch, who is considered a wise head in politics for being in the industry for long, seems to be having a point when he warns Trump.

However, details are still sketchy on the specific reasons why Koch had to warn Trump. However, experts are not taking this statement lightly. Koch who is a conservative donor notes with bitterness that Trump presidential aspirations may not come true. He compares Trump with George Wallace or Perrot. This means terming him as a fringe candidate. Nevertheless, Trump does not seem aroused by these statements as he has not made official communication to Koch.

Koch has not only been pushing for moderation on how the politics of the day are run but he presses for a shift to a politics of ideas. Some years ago, he funded the start of Cato Institute. This is because he believes in a politics which will not just divide votes. The ideas include education, commercial liability, public pensions, taxes, welfare, regulation and policing. According to him, the country would run better with such ideas on the forefront.

Koch, who is 80, is an American businessman who has also turned a philanthropist. His life has also been centered in politics. This is marked by donation to different political initiatives. He is a co-founder plus chairman to the board of Koch Industries. He also serves as CEO in the company which deals with manufacturing equipment to help fight pollution. His company comes second by revenue among the private companies in the United States. He supports different education based initiatives. Koch, who is a controversial plus powerful political figure, attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His net worth is $43 billion.

As a business man, philanthropist, technologist, writer, and public speaker, it seems that Eric Pulier does it all. This founder of over fifteen businesses studied English and literature, computer science, and visual and environmental studies at Harvard University. He later went on to become one of the greatest of all business leaders in government and enterprise technology.

Pulier’s main niche lies, not only in the world of business, but in computer science and software as well. The majority of his endeavors have gone toward technology, investment, and charities. For example, Pulier has invested in many companies, including Digital Evolution, a Creative Production Studio that works with advertising. He is also the Co-founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of ServiceMesh, a semi-recent and unique computer software for cloud management. He has had great financial success with most of his investments over the years.

Bill Clinton and Al Gore invited Pulier to also participate in an important event of their second inauguration in Washington DC. This event, known as the “Bridge to the 21st Century,” contained exhibits that were meant to represent the future of technology, from advances in education and medicine, to the environment and the government.

In addition, Eric Pulier has donated his extra time and money to charity organizations for different worthy causes. He has, in particular, used technological innovation to help the ill and impaired. People of Africa who are in need and those who struggle to afford higher education have been major charity focuses of Pulier, and he also designed a virtual world called the Starbright World for children suffering from chronic illnesses.

Lastly, Pulier has been involved in a few published works. He co-authored a book called “Understanding Enterprise SOA,” which was designed to help people see technology and business in a different light. He also published a piece called “The Enterprise Industrial Complex,” in Forbes Magazine in 2012.

DIVERSANT LLC is a top privately owned firm that deals with IT staffing. The company is based in the United States and is certified to operate as a Minority-Owned Business Enterprise. DIVERSANT is held mainly by African-Americans and provides its clients with a broad variety of accessible and dependable IT staffing services and products, which include IT staffing augmentation, direct contracting and creative diversity solutions. The firm’s goods and services are based on superb policies, which have a primary goal of fulfilling the needs of the clients, partners, and communities that count on it. DIVERSANT provides its customers with proper solutions for critical IT problems, by using consultative approaches and involving them as close associates.

Technology is radically evolving in the business world, and this has led to high demand and competition for IT professionals. DIVERSANT LLC takes up the role of obtaining the appropriate IT talent for diverse businesses by recruiting competent IT professionals through its rigorous sourcing and vetting processes. The IT specialists who are hired by the company have the necessary skill to provide clients with a complete cycle of customized software development. DIVERSANT has a lot of experience in staffing, and therefore, matches different experts with the right companies, where their talent is required. The ability of the firm to match IT experts’ skill and experience with various cultures builds healthy and durable relationships with its clients.

John Goullet is a prominent business mogul who serves as DIVERSANT LLC’s Principle. He founded many successful IT companies from the time he switched his career to IT staffing in 1994 from being an IT consultant. Due to his experience and extensive knowledge on developing market drifts, John founded Info Technologies as a staffing company with a primary goal of providing IT solution to the Fortune 500 companies in the US. Info Technology made various accomplishments including being ranked eighth on the Inc. Magazine’s top 500 fastest-rising private firms in America. Mr. Goullet managed to grow his business’ net worth to 30 million dollars within five years. In 2010, he merged the business with DIVERSANT Inc. to form DIVERSANT LLC, where he has continued pursuing his passion for creating IT solutions.

According to the 2016 first quarter report filed with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, James Dondero, President and Co-owner of Highland Capital Management increased its share holdings in Sally Beauty and Progressive Corporation. During the first quarter, Highland Capital purchased 158,240 shares of Sally Beauty Holdings and 10,000 shares of Progressive Corp. At the end of March, the investment firm reported its stake increased to 674,688 shares in Sally stock and 355,150 shares in Progressive stock. James Dondero also reported Highland increased its stake in Salesforce Corn Inc.

Highland Capital Management decreased its stake holdings in Athenahealth Inc., based on the report filing with SEC at the end of the first quarter. By December 2015 end, Highland sold 78,976 shares, which is approximately an 83 percent decrease of the 95,000 shares previously held. The firm held 16,024 at the end of March 2016, which was valued at $2.2 million. Athenahealth Inc provides cloud and mobile app services to medical facilities and health systems, such as medical billing and electronic medical records. After the stock of the company was reduced by over 12 percent, Highland reduced its stake to protect their investments.

James Dondero co-founded Highland Capital Management, an alternative investment management firm, in the early 1990s, before its name changed from Protective Life and Ranger Asset Management. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, TX and has branch offices in NYC, England, and Singapore. Mr. Dondero helped to build Highland Capital into one of the top international investment firms in the industry. The management firm manages more than $15 billion in assets and has received Lipper Fund Awards in 2015 and 2016.

Dondero received an Accounting & Finance degree from the University of Virginia. He is a registered advisor with SEC and holds certificates as a Certified Management Accountant and Chartered Financial Analyst. For over 25 years, James has worked as an investment advisor and hedge fund manager. Since Highland Capital was formed, the firm introduced the first non-bank collaterized loan obligation (CLO) and the 40 Act alternative investment platform.

Highland Capital Management, LP made strategic investment decisions to decease and increase its stakes in various companies. The firm decreased its stake in Athenahealth Inc.; and increased its stakes in Sally Beauty Holdings and Salesforce Corn Inc, according to Franklin Independent (May 16th, 2016). Most of its holdings in Athenahealth was sold, leaving the firm with nearly 14 percent of the previous reported holdings the end of 2015.

As of May 2016, Lime Crime, the all-natural makeup company known for its bright and attention-getting colors, has exceeded the two-million follower mark on Instagram.

The founder and CEO of Lime Crime, Doe Deere, is a pioneer when it comes to selling cosmetics via e-commerce. Deere is credited with introducing the online lipstick swatch on the lips of a model, so that virtual shoppers can get a realistic idea of what the lipstick will look like.

Lime Crime has been in business for about eight years now, and Doe Deere continues to use her creative instincts to engage customers all around the world via social media. Deere shares that Instagram is one of the methods Lime Crime uses to become even more of an innovator in e-commerce. She states that she wants to create a satisfactory shopping experience for her customers. Doe says that while most companies simply want to showcase their products on Instagram, she wants to actually engage with her customers and make their shopping experience worthwhile.

The Instagram posts from Lime Crime feature makeup looks that have been submitted by fans of the makeup line, using the hashtag, #limecrime. Users submit photos that feature everything from bold, ombre lips to nail art that is intricate and fascinating. Some users also upload pictures of color eye makeup, using eye shadows from Lime Crime. Doe shares these photos on the Lime Crime Instagram page because she wants to inspire her followers to be more imaginative. Deere also says that she wants her cruelty-free cosmetics company to inspire women to take more risks when it comes to their hair, clothing and overall fashion choices. Deere refers to Lime Crime fans as “unicorns,” and says that she’s happy to showcase the looks that customers come up with.

Doe Deere is also a makeup artist, and she often showcases the lipsticks and eye shadows from her line as a model in order to give customers ideas for their looks. Deere has also been known to wear wild hair colors, and doesn’t believe in occasion-appropriate clothing. She feels that women should wear things that make them feel comfortable and beautiful, without worrying about society’s regulations.

It takes a special gift to create a business of any kind, and that’s the quality that businessman and entrepreneur Sanjay Ray has. Ray has many successful business ventures to his credit, including London-based Solo Capital. More recently, Ray has become involved in charitable work, which is the purpose behind his rock and roll fund raising entity, Autism Rocks.

Autism Rocks was launched in response to the anguish Ray felt upon learning in 2014 that his young son had the disorder. Ray decided to take action, and to use his passion for music as well as his feel for business to launch a charity that could make a difference. Thus began Autism Rocks, which is now working hard to raise funds for research into the neurological condition.

In a recent talk with Eric Dye on the Entrepreneurial Podcast Network’s Enterprise Radio Show, Ray advised young businesss people on what the key points are when starting a company. One of the most important factors, he said, is to know how much money you really need to get things started. He said it is always more than you think, so it’s important to be realistic about what is required.

The other important factor, he said, is to know that you really can’t to it all yourself. Trying to take on all the work can be overhelming, he said, and mistakes will inevitably be made. Given all of this, it’s important to have a lot of talent in place in order to launch successfully.

Ray used all these concepts when he launched Autism Rocks, and he is proud of the team behind the charity. Autism Rocks recently did a major rock and roll event in April of 2016, and the lineup included top acts like Flor Rida and Tyga. The good news behind all of this is that the success of Autism Rocks is turning into more money for research for this very important cause.